James W. Symington

James Wadsworth Symington (28 September 1927-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-MO 2) from 3 January 1969 to 3 January 1977, succeeding Thomas B. Curtis and preceding Robert A. Young.

Biography
James Wadsworth Symington was born in Rochester, New York in 1927, the son of US Senator Stuart Symington, the grandson of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., and the great-grandson of James Wolcott Wadsworth and John Hay. He served as a Private First Class in the US Marine Corps during World War II before serving as Assistant City Counselor of St. Louis from 1954 to 1955, as an assistant ambassador to Britain from 1958 to 1960, as administrative assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy from 1962 to 1963, and as Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1966 to 1968, when he was elected to the US House of Representatives. In 1976, he decided to run for his father's vacant Senate seat, but he lost the party primary and instead worked as a lawyer in Washington DC.